Lots of people are soldering flash chips. There are X-Boxes, wireless routers, and even the occasional motherboard that needs a "flash upgrade." It's interesting how flash chips are enabling things like net neutrality, fair use, and free speech.

hi dch24
flash chips have been around for a while now....uniflash, mtkflash and xsf are some really neat flashers that bring some use out of the old junk pile as i have found out.
all my hard drives, motherboards, cdrws, vcards and nics that were in the junk pile have recently made a nice come back.:)